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Bureau is small in comparison with the total increase, and 

 there were fewer cases killed outside of Boston in 1907 than 

 in 1905. 



The city of Boston is no more part of Massachusetts, so 

 far as the authority of the Cattle Bureau is concerned in 

 connection with glanders and farcy in horses or rahies in dogs, 

 than is Providence, Rhode Island or New York City. The 

 figures in Boston are furnished only by the courtesy of the 

 Boston Board of Health, as there is not even anything in 

 the law requiring it to report these cases, and the only reason 

 for including them in this report is that, as Boston is supposed 

 to be a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, these 

 figures are added in order to make the statistics of the con- 

 tagious diseases of animals complete. 



The Boston Board of Health reports that there were 308 

 cases of glanders or farcy among horses and mules in that city 

 during the year ending Nov. 30, 1907, which was 111 more 

 than during the eleven and one-half months preceding Dec. 

 1, 1906. For the eleven and one-half months ending Nov. 30, 

 190G, the number of cases of glanders and farcy reported 

 from Boston was about 3-1 per cent of the total number in 

 the State, while for the year ending Nov. 30, 1907, it rose to 

 over 43 per cent. 



There was a combined increase of 39 cases over the pre- 

 vious year in Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Milton, Newton, 

 Watertown, Dedham, Quincy and Winthrop, all towns abut- 

 ting on Boston, from which team and express horses go back 

 and forth daily to their work, while the total increase in 

 glanders and farcy outside of Boston over the previous year 

 was but 27; therefore, deducting these 39 cases, there was 

 actually a decrease of 1 2 cases from the previous year in the 

 rest of the Commonwealth. 



There was a decrease in 1907 of 5 cases in Somerville, 1 

 in Hyde Park and 12 in Everett. Of the 711 cases of glan- 

 ders or farcy, 508, or 71 per cent, were within ten miles of 

 the State House. Four hundred and fifty-four, or over 63 per 

 cent, occurred in Boston and the abutting towns of Chelsea, 

 Winthrop, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, 

 Brookline, Dedham, Hyde Park, Milton and Quincy. 



